Windows 10 and Windows 11 only show so-called logical drives in File Explorer. These are disks with a drive letter and a file system supported by Windows.
- Find Disk Management using the context menu
- Open Disk Management via Computer Management
- Open Disk Management via command
In order to be able to use new hard drives or removable drives without formatting or to divide a physical disk into several partitions or logical drives, you need disk management.
We’ll show you three different ways you can quickly find and open Disk Management.
Please note: In this guide we are using screenshots from Windows 10. However, the steps are the same in Windows 11 as only the window design has changed. The specified menus, key combinations and buttons are identical.
Find Disk Management using the context menu
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Probably the quickest way to find Disk Management is to right click on the start button. There you can conjure up the disk management directly with another click.
Open Disk Management via Computer Management
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Unfortunately, a Windows search for disk management does not return any results. Since Disk Management is a subprogram of Computer Management, you can just search for it instead.
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You can then display the disk management by selecting it in the left menu under “Data storage” in the main window.
Open Disk Management via command
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With the command “diskmgmt.msc” you can also open the disk management directly via the search field. However, since the command is not easy to remember, this variant is probably more for professionals who use the tool regularly.
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